Talk:Battle of Kilrush

Referencing

Any objections to changing the citation system to reflist in the hope of encouraging more refs with the more common format? RashersTierney (talk) 01:03, 8 January 2012 (UTC)

Small skirmish?

Show us any other battles in Ireland in the 1640s involving 11,000 men that are described as skirmishes, never mind as "small" skirmishes.78.17.23.211 (talk) 15:21, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I am the editor who rewrote the article and used the words "small skirmish." It was my impression that the battle really didn't last too long. The Confederates blocked the path of the Royalists but broke fairly quickly when the Royalist cavalry attacked. So I wanted to characterize it as a skirmish rather than a formal battle where the two sides faced each other across a field attacking with artillery and fighting it out for a prolonged priod. I may hav downplayed it too much. Change it if you like. Thanks for asking. VFF0347 (talk) 16:18, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

It was a battle in terms of the numbers involved, but more so from the strategic effect if the only royalist field army had been surrounded and destroyed at Kilrush. Ormonde's army had reached Maryborough (now Portlaoise) unopposed, and carried supplies as far afield as Borris in Carlow and Birr in Offaly. This had maintained royalist morale across the midlands, that would have collapsed a year earlier than it did (in 1643). Ormonde's enemies were unable to oppose his army in February 1642, when it took Naas, and so they had to destroy it on its return to Dublin, but failed.78.18.201.8 (talk) 13:11, 9 September 2021 (UTC)